According to Ebay, this weekend is the starting gun for Bank holiday spending and a huge opportunity for brands to grab share of wallet, as consumers shop online for DIY and entertainment items a week early.

With Wyevale Garden Centres (WGC) having already sold 100,000 fresh daffodils this month and donating a percentage of sales to Marie Curie's Great Daffodil Appeal, the charity is in line for a bumper handout.

Home and hardware products manufacturer Threesixty Innovation successfully relocated the business this month, moving from Nottinghamshire to Derbyshire and upsizing from 14,000sq ft premises to nearly 70,000sq ft.

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In May 1982 Bromborough Paints md Neville Wellings interviewed 17-year old Donna Geoghegan for a position as office junior and 30 years later, she's still with the company, now in the role of sales office manager.

Would you like to go back to Sunday closing?As consumers demand more and more in terms of convenience, as a retailer, would you like to go back to a time when all retail businesses are closed on a Sunday?

Yes, I'd love to get my Sunday back - sales would be spread across the other six days of the week
Yes, it's not a busy day and the sales we would lose are negligable
No, we are really busy on a Sunday and I don't think the lost sales would be made up in the rest of the week
I already close on a Sunday

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